Today is my birthday and I got a really special gift from my fiancé and mom! I’m sure you’ve seen videos of people doing the bookstore challenge where they get an amount of time to grab as many books as they can. That’s what I got to do! So today I want to tell you about my experience yesterday.

We actually already had plans today, so we decided to go to the bookstore yesterday. I had five minutes to browse the bookstore and then three minutes to grab as much as I could. As long as I was able to carry them. No basket allowed!

I will say browsing the bookstore on a time limit is a whole different experience than taking your time looking around. Five minutes ends up feeling really short, haha. Then I had three minutes to shop. I started with the YA books and in eight seconds I already grabbed four books. Then things got tricky!

I’ve seen people freeze in videos and I can definitely relate to that now. At a certain point you just don’t see the titles anymore and things get pretty overwhelming. When we were at the cash register I ended up seeing titles on tables that I didn’t even notice when I stood right in front of them, haha.

All in all, it was a great challenge though. It was a fun experience and I ended up with twelve new books for my shelves. All of these are books I’ve been wanting to read, so I’m very happy! I’ll talk about these books more in our haul, but here is a picture to see what I got.

 

Have you ever done the bookstore challenge? How did you do? If not, how do you think you’d do? Is there a bookstore you’d want to do the challenge at? Let me know in the comments. I’d love to hear from you!